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You suddenly want to protest deaths in custody? Good! But can you be consistent?

By David Pellowe - posted Monday, 8 June 2020


An important fact – which in no way excuses incidents of police brutality – is that police are more often in high crime neighbourhoods, either proactively or in response to crime, which unfortunately often happens to be black neighbourhoods for obvious, not racist reasons.

Another fact is that more white people are killed by police than black people, without the hystrionics demonstrated by opportunistic activists. When the white Australian lady, Justine Damond, was brutally murdered by a black, Muslim police officer (also from Minneapolis Police Department), there was no retaliatory rioting, looting, violence or murders. The same brutal injustice – it just didn't suit the victim-olympics narrative, so the demagogues left their matches in their pockets.

According to The National Center for Biotechnology Information, victims of lethal force by on-duty law-enforcement (cops) were majority white (52%) and less than a third (32%) of fatalities were black. The point is well made that 32% is disproportionate to the 13% black population of America, but actually fails to consider the rate at which African-Americans encounter police due to their 39% share of violent crimes and 51% of murders.

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32% deaths due to lethal force by on-duty law enforcement while 39% of violent crimes and 51% of murders? That's not evidence of "systemic racism".

At least be consistent.

If you, like me, are motivated to intervene in injustice, don't just do something about it or only speak up when the perpetrator is white and male and the victim is black and/or female. But many bleeding hearts being manipulated by demagogues can't even be that consistent.

The truly horrendous, genocidal pattern of violence against African-Americans is being swept under the rug, revealing less interest in objective justice and defence of natural human rights than indefensibly incurious subscription to prejudiced agendas.

While African-Americans comprise only 13% of the population, they are more disprotionately affected by deaths in the custody of abortionists than of police. 36% of all abortions in the United States are committed against black women.

According to a New York City Health Department report, 136,426 preborn black babies were deliberately killed and 118,127 were born safely between 2012 and 2016. It seems far easier to kill them while they're innocent and defenceless.

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In just one city more than half the African-Americans were killed before they could take their first breath. There's a word for that, and it's not "health care". Over the span of five years 136,426 mothers had their babies violently crushed, dismembered and removed from their wombs by real, data-evidenced, "systemic racism", oppression and injustice.

So I just want to know if those social justice warriors, so easily enflamed by moralising media, grievance activists and identity politics are just in it for the endorphine hit of getting some likes on social media or signalling your superior virtue. Or are they sincerely interested in objective justice and natural human rights?

How you vote at the next election will speak volumes.

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Dave Pellowe is a Christian conservative commentator & speaker, the founder of the annual Church And State Summit and blogs at PelloweTalk.com.

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